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SvennoJ on 23 May 2025
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Starvation-related deaths in Gaza

A limited number of trucks carrying aid has started to enter Gaza, 11 weeks into Israel’s total blockade of the Strip.

Aid agencies are warning that most of those minimal supplies have not reached soup kitchens, markets or hospitals, and at least 29 people, including children, have now died of starvation-related causes in Gaza in recent days.

And this only covers people that make it to one of the remaining hospitals to be counted... At least is a vast understatement.



Some bakeries resume operations, WFP chief says

A number of bakeries supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) are up and running again in Gaza, says the UN organisation’s chief, Cindy McCain.

“But we need more wheat flour, more fuel, more safe access – so more ovens can fire back up to feed families desperately in need,” McCain said in a post on X.


UN’s Albanese backs ‘diplomatic humanitarian convoy’ to break Gaza blockade

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, has said she supports a call for a “diplomatic humanitarian convoy” to break the “genocidal siege” Israel has placed on Gaza.

“I implore member states, especially the authorities concerned with the passage of the convoy, to respond positively and act swiftly,” she wrote in a post on X.

The convoy, as outlined by nonprofit group Law for Palestine, would see humanitarian aid trucks escorted into Gaza through the Rafah crossing as part of “high-level state missions”.